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In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition. ”
I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing. ”
People find it very, very difficult to believe what I've done. Scientists have seen my work and they can't explain it. Even nano-scientists have seen it and been totally shocked. But if any man on Earth wants to challenge me, I'm ready. Bring it on. ”
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout. ”
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. ”
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. ”
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. ”
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. ”
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. ”
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. ”